A University of Florida Palestinian student group has filed a lawsuit against the State University System’s chancellor seeking to block a directive to shut down UF’s chapter of National Students for Justice in Palestine.

The federal lawsuit, which was filed in the Northern District of Florida on Nov. 16, comes in the wake of a memorandum from Chancellor Ray Rodrigues that contends the National SJP group has allied itself with the Operation Al-Aqsa Flood terrorist attack on Oct. 7 that killed 1,400 Israelis.

“… The National Students for Justice in Palestine (National SJP) released a ‘toolkit’ which refers to Operation Al-Aqsa Flood as ‘the resistance’ and unequivocally states: ‘Palestinian students in exile are PART of this movement, not in solidarity with this movement,’” Rodrigues said in the Oct. 24 memorandum.